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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

by Mark Forsyth (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

    $4.37
Synopsis

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller 'Not since Eats, Shoots & Leaves has a book about language attracted so much attention' Robert McCrum, Observer What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces? The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words. It's an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explaining precisely what the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 03 Nov 2011
ISBN 10: 1848313071
ISBN 13: 9781848313071

Media Reviews
'I'm hooked on Forsyth's book - Crikey, but this is addictive' -- Mathew Parris * The Times *
'Kudos should go to Mark Forsyth, author of The Etymologicon - Clearly a man who knows his onions, Mr Forsyth must have worked 19 to the dozen, spotting red herrings and unravelling inkhorn terms, to bestow this boon - a work of the first water, to coin a phrase.' * Daily Telegraph *
''The Etymologicon' contains fascinating facts' * Daily Mail *
'One of the books of the year. It is too enjoyable for words.' -- Henry Coningsby * Waterstones Watford *
Author Bio
Mark Forsyth is a writer, journalist and blogger. Every job he's ever had, whether as a ghost-writer or proof-reader or copy-writer, has been to do with words. He started The Inky Fool blog in 2009 and now writes a post almost every day. The blog has received worldwide attention and enjoys an average of 4,000 hits per week.